The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 . _ OATH OF OFFICE 1S ADMINISTERED 48 HOURS ARTER POLL’ Democratic Chieftain An- nounced Plans to Sweep ‘Bums Out of Office’ MARGIN WAS 194,257 VOTES New Head of Second City in U. S. Warns Capone to Re- main in Florida Chicago, April 9.—(?}—Anton Jo- seph Cermak took the oath of office as Chicago's mayor shortly before noon Thursday. The Democratic leader who defeat- ed Mayor William Hale Thompson Tuesday by 194,257 votes assumed his new position less than 48 hours after the polls closed. Every possible short- cut had been taken so that Cermak could start his promised reorganiza- tion of the municipal government. ‘The votes were canvassed in record time, a special meeting of the city council was called to approve Cer- mak’s bond, the new city clerk was sworn in, and then Cermak took oath. “The bums who hang’ around the city hall are going to be swept right out” Cermak told interviewers Wed- nesday. Almost simultaneously he told London newspaper men in a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation that. his advice to Alphonse Capone was for him to stay out of Chicage for the next four years. Should Stay in Florida “Capone is under sentence here, you know, and I suggest that he stay in Florida,” Cermak said. His reference was to a six months’ sentence im-/ posed on the gang chieftain by a fed- eral judge for contempt of court for failure to respond to a summons from @ grand jury investigating incomes Sentence was stayed pending appeal. Administration of the oath of-of- fice to Cermak hud -been tentatively} set for Friday, but completion of the official canvass-of Tuesday's voting in record time Wednesday, made pos- sible this formality Thursday. Cer- mak spent some time considering the selection of department heads, but declined to give out any advance in- formation. Rumor had it that. Col. A. A. Sprague might be named as com- missioner of public works, to succeed Richard W. Wolfe. Office holders spent Wednesday cleaning out their desks at the city hall, getting ready for the influx of (Continued on page eleven) CHINESE SOLDIERS FIRE ON YANKEES Americans on Board Iping Si- lence Barrage by Returning Accurate Fire Ichang, China, Aprli 9.—(}—A bat- tle between: a: handful. of American naval guards aboard the Yangtse river steamer Iping and ‘a’ considet- able body: of troops,. supposedly: Chi- nese nationalist soldiers, took place near here early Thursday. The Chi- nese soldiers opened fire on the ship but were silenced by the American ‘The Chinese poured sharp fire into the Iping, which hed been disabled} by striking a rock in the Yangtse rapids and was limping into Ichang for repairs. The engagement was se- vere but short, the American fire proving too effective for the Chinese to withstand. ‘The attack was made supposedly by ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE : After seeing Elaine V. Sheffler, above, you'll have to agree that, just as in love and war, all’s fair in politics. Miss Sheffler, daughter of Ohic State Representative George W. Sheffler of Fremont, took an active part in state politics in 1930 as Democratic com- mittee woman, and she has just been appointed state organizer and man- ager of the Ohio Traveling Library Association. DEATH OF GIRL HERE FOUND ACCIDENTAL +-=BY-CORONER'S JURY Doctors, School-Mates, and Of- , ficials Testify at Official Inquest Caroline Haider, 17-year-old St. Mary’s schoolgirl, who was fatally in- jured here Tuesday morning, came to her death accidentally. ‘This is the decision returned Wed- nesday evening by a Burleigh county coroner’s jury following an inquest. Miss Haider died of cerebral hem- horrages and @ fracture of the skull suffered when she was struck by a truck driven by Edward Tibesar, 18, Bismarck. The jury, made up of Roy Mills, George Humphreys and Roy Kositzky, returned its verdict after 20 minutes deliberation. Corroborative testimony offered by each of the eye-witnesses indicated that the girl was struck as the result of having become confused when she saw the truck approaching. Appar- ently she had seen the truck ap- proaching from the north on Tenth St. but had incorrectly gauged the speed at which it was traveling. ‘Witnesses said she stepped from the curb on the east side of the street ‘and was about three-fourths of the way across the street when she be- came confused and started to turn The driver made an attempt to ive around her, witnesses said, but her confusion she again turned and was struck by the front part. of the truck. All witnesses said that the truck was not traveling at an ex- Chinese nationalist soldiers stationed | wh above Ichang to preyent the entry of | body. communists into this city. King George Still Showing Progress] teste maintained, it was stated offically pt ‘Windsor Castle Thursday morn- ‘The assurances Berad ae majesty is progressing we been somewhat qualified from the begin- ning, however, by insistence by those about him that his progress neces- Roberts’ Conditio: Reported Unchanged ra Noby, Mihm, Robert Schmidt, James Joyce, Vernon Kelly, Frank Burns, Peter ‘Volk and Eugene McDonald. ©. J. Martineson, T. R. Atkinson, A Risem and O. A. Convert also testi- fled. Miss Elizabeth Haider, Chicago, sister of the accident victim, arrived Notre Dame Students Attend Rockne Mass BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1931 Speaker Longworth Succ ermak Becomes Ma ‘Man Charged With [RIPUBICANS OPEN |[___ speaker ottoue Dies | Murdering Woman oe i Harry Stein ‘Accused in | York of Slaying Vivian Gor- don Feb. 26 FOUR OTHERS ARE ARRESTED Three Men Mentioned in ‘Broad- way Butterfly’s’ Diary Deny Knowing Her New York, April 9—()—Harry Stein, who went to prison in 1921 for attempting to strangle a woman, was held Thursday for the Feb. 26 murder of Vivian Gordon, strangler victim. Four others were arrested as wit- nesses. Police said the motive of the murder had been robbery and not, as first suspected, to prevent her testify- ing as a vice inquiry witness. Police produced, three persons who identified Stein as the man who on the day the Gordon murder was in possession of articles similar to those stolen from Vivian Gordon—a mins coat, a wrist watch, and a chain. Records revealed Stein was convict- ed 10 years ago and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for robbing Mary Glickman at her Bronx apartment after he had bound, gagged snd at- témpted to strangle her. The arrests were made simultanc- ously Wednesday night in various Parts of the city. Besides Stein, those arrested were: Samuel Greenhauer, alias Green- berg, Greenhear and “Greenie;” Mor- ris (Doc) Levine; David Butterman; Jack Holdcroft. Stein, Levine and Greehauer are three of the men mentioned in Vivian Gordon's diary—the diary in whicb she set down her affairs of love and blackmail and fear. The three — Stein, Levine and Greenhour—denied knowing the Gor- don woman. They could not explain their names in her diary. The Vivian Gordon murdercase is the most recent of the series involv- ing women who had figured in the misty Broadway night life. If, as Police say, the murder has been solved by the five arrests announced Thursday, it will be the first solution of the series. The Dorothy King case probably is the best-known of the unsolved “Broadway Butterfly" cases. The immediate thought upon the discovery of Vivian Gordon’s body was that her murder had been done to silence her threatened testimony in the police vice squad investigation. She had written Isidor R. Kresel, the prosecutor of the probe, shortly be- fore her death, offering to testify. This theory never gained great credence among investigators. Some believed her death was the result of personal vengeance, and others sug- gested her alleged blackmailing ac- tivities may have brought about an ting. REBELS PREPARING TO RESIST TROOPS'* Junta in Control in Madeira Is Given Three More Days to Surrender Funchal, Madeira, April 9.—(?)}— Preparations have begun for sttff re- sistance to the expeditionary force being sent. here from Lisbon to sub- due the newly installed revolutionary government. General Sousa, Dias, who heads the fense it is believed the junta will be able to hold out against the Lisbon DRIVE EMPHASIZING | DEMOCRAT DISCORD Lucas Attempts to Take Advan- tage of Strife Over Ras- kob’s Proposal DIRECTS APPEAL TO SOUTH Says Democrats’ So ‘Bankrupt’ They Cannot Present ‘Con- crete Statement’ Washington, April 9.—(?)—The Re- publican party has begun a campaign interperted as an effort to gain some- thing from Democratic discord over the Raskob proposals. In an attack on the program sug- gested for 1932 by the Democratic national committee chairman, Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican national committee, said Wednesday night the only concrete propositions offered by the opposing party had come from Raskob. “Mr. Raskob,” Lucas said in an ap- peal to the south over the Dixie net- work of the Columbia Broadcasting system, . . . makes the jue pro- posal that the solution of the eco- nomic problems now confronting the United States, and in which the south is vitally interested, may be solved by (1) repealing the federal arti-trust laws; and (2) offering every individ- ual a drink. “This is an entirely new school of political thought.” Lucas asserted continuing Repub- lican tariff and other. policies had aided development and prosperity of the south, adding: “Its place, therefore, politically is in the Republican party.” He mentioned differences o2 opin- fon in the Democratic party. The house Democratic caucus called for last February was abandoned, he said, because “they ascertained that in ig event they “held such @ cay the: could not agrée upon’ anyt! and would in all probability wind up in an open quarrel.” The recent Democratic national committee meeting, when Raskob first advanced his suggestions (for the 1932 platform, Lucas asserted, “ended in a near riot, with nothing accomplished.” “Why should the people of the south,” Lucas asked, “participate in organization that is so bankrupt and so disorganized that it cannot present to the American people a concrete statement as to what it believes and as to what it will do in event it is given control of the federal govern- ment. “Why should the people of the south continue to place themselevs in a perpetual minority, ses themselves aside from the rest of the country politically by following sucn bankrupt leadership.” ae a [$3,000 in GoldIs___| Back in Circulation | Helena, Mont., April 9.—(?)— Three thousand dollars in gold came back into circulation here Tuesday because the owner is “‘go- ing back east for medical atten- eg and cannot take it with A man past middle age lifted a sack into a teller’s window in a bank and asked to deposit it. The gold coins, stained from burial in the earth, were of $5, $10 and $20 denominations. Some had been minted as early as 1847, and latest date on any coin was 1906. Eight Negroes to Die For Attacking Girls Scottsboro, Ala., April 9.—(P)—A Jackson county jury Thursday con- victed five negroes in age from 16 to 19 years of attacking two white girls hoboing onva freight train and fixed their punishment at death in the electric chair. ‘This verdict and septence brought to eight the total number found guil- ty and sentenced to die for attacking the girls last March 24. yor of Chicago NICHOLAS LONGWORTH Mandan Man Is Told He Will Inherit $500,000 FORESTRY PROVECT IS CONSDERED AT BISMARCK MEETING State and Federal Governments to Join in McHenry Coun- ty Plantings Plans for the most extensive forest- ation project in the history of North Dakote were under considera- tion Thursday by federal officials, President F. E. Cobb of the state for- estry school at Bottineau, members of the state board of administration and of the state land board. The plan provides for a ; federal tree-planting project in Towner and McHenry counties which may event- ually total 100,000 acres. ‘This year’s planting, according to the program worked out by Cobb and Dr. Raphael Zon, head of the gov- ernment forestry work in the North- west, provides for the planting of five acres with coniferous tfees this spring at a point between Riga and Denbigh, McHenry county. This will be followed by other plantings an- nually in an effort to determine if trees can be grown successfully in that region. Offices for the federal experiment project will be established at the Bottineau Forestry school, according to members of the board of adminis- tration who are participating in the conferences. A small office and a nursery also will be located at the site of the planting project, the idea being to raise additional seedlings for further plantings. The nurseries at Bottineau also will be drawn upon for planting stock. ‘The area in which the experimental forest will be located is covered largely by sand dunes and is, for the most part, unsettled. W. J. Church, member of the board of administra- tion, said it was settled by homestead- ers in the early days but that most of these folks had subsequently left for more productive farms and most of Jand sought for the experiment (Continued on page eleven) Aged Turk Leaves U. S. for Turkey to Visit With His 36 Sons and Daughters a New York, April 9.—()—Zaro Agha, the Turk: who claims to be 157 years old, ‘sailed for home aa ify i E i i J att | J. P. Holmes, Northern Pacific Worker, Is Skeptical, Yet "Hopeful Visions of wealth and affluence Thursday floated before the eyes of J. P. Holmes, Mandan, employe of the Northern Pacific railroad. He was interested and hopeful but just a little skeptical. It seemed too good to be true. The source of the vision was a let- ter from his sister, Mrs. W. M. Crumbling of Chicago, who said he was named as one of 12 heirs to the $6,000,000 estate of his uncle, George Holmes, who got rich in South Africa and died recently in County Tyrone, Ireland, at the age of 80. Other uncles have died in the Holmes fam- ily but a $6,000,000 uncle is different. He stands out. Hence the roseate dreams. Holmes can use the money. He admits it and expects to do so—if he gets it. But he won't spend it until he does get it. His job with the Northern Pacific is that of traveling coach cleaner, one of the humbler pursuits in the rail- road business, and he isn’t going to quit it until the cash in hand assures him that he is a rich man by inherit- ance. That he will be rich if the dream comes true is certain for $6,- 000,000, divided among 12 heirs, would make $500,000 each! a tidy sum. The prospective rich man has an- other pursuit besides that of working for the railroad. It is growing horse- radish and selling it by door-to-door solicitation. He isn’t sure but that, if he has the time after the expected wealth arrives, he will not make a determined effort to improve on cur- rent strains of that good old condi- ment. He has been interésted in gar- dening for the last eight years and his ambition has always been to grow and manufacture the best horse- tadish in the world. “All this money at once is surely a happy surprise,” Holmes told a Trib- une reporter, “but I don’t think it will bother me any. I intend to keep right on growing and selling horse-radish. “No, Idon't thinkI will leave Man- dan. I have lived here since 1921 and T like it here. I want to invest some money in Mandan real estate. “I don’t think I will give up work- Sudden The Weather — "as, rea i tate PRICE FIVE. CENTS umbs Representative Victim Of Pneumonia Nation Stricken in Mourning by Sudden Death of First Official of House of Representatives, Who Had Served Country for 33 Years FUNERAL WILL BE HELD IN CINCINNATI SATURDAY President Hoover Will Attend Services; Ohio Politician Became I? Monday Following Strenuous Work During Congressional Session Aiken, S. C., April 9.—(AP)—Nicholas Longworth, ker of the national house of representatives, died jit at 10:49 a. m., E. S. T., Thursday. _ Longworth’s amazing vitality, physicians said, alone kept him alive during the night and until his death. He was taken ill last Monday of pneumonia in one lung. At his bedside was his wife, the former Alice Roosevelt, daughtef of President Theodore Roosevelt, and his friend, Mrs. James F. Curtis, at whose home he contracted the disease. EAE hu eR was not with him. lay, physicians mosed his illn Monday night. He steadily grew worse ef 48 hours ister they ‘admitted his condition was desperate. Mrs. Longworth was notified as soon as it was determined he was suffering from pneumonia and she arrived in Aiken Wednesday morning. Her fortitude, Dr. R. H. Wilds, of Aiken, one of the attending physicians said, was remarkable. Two of Mrs. Longworth’s brothers, Kermit and Archibald Roosevelt, were believed to be speeding to the bedside in a plane, but they had not arrived at the time of the speaker's death. Mr. Longworth arrived in Aiken March 30 to rest after the arduous duties as speaker of the house. He developed a cold soon afte it was not believed serious until this wok! items He had played a little golf after arriving, friends said, but had done little else in the way of exercise. LONGWORTH LAUD: AS ‘HUMAN BEING? AND PARTY LEADER Nation Is Cast Into Mourning by Death. of Genial and Pol- ished ‘Nick’ Washington, April 9.—(#)—Under the mourning for Speaker Longworth there was deeper grief in the capital Thursday for the genial “Nick” who was what Representative McDuffie, Alabama, called “a natural human being.” “There are a lot of Republicans we could do without,” McDuffie, the Democratic whip, wrote the speaker just a few days ago, “but you are not one of them.” The tribute went with hope for quick recovery from the cold that became fatal pneumonia. It accom- panied a resolution urging Speaker Longworth to address the Alabama legislature. The gesture was proposed by an Alabama Democratic leader who had talked with the speaker for a few moments in McDuffie'’s capitol office. Received First Tributes It was the “Nick” of such incidents who received first tributes up and down the capitol. It was he who is said to have inspired Democratic Leader Garner of Texas, to refer, once, to “about 200 Longworth votes” which concededly depended upon the decision of the speaker. He was a big’ man, He was bald and ruddy-faced, uncom- monly healthy. His clothes and the handsome cane he carried were those of the wealth and position to which he was born. “Nick's” voice was as smooth ar his hands, except when he (Continued on page eight) ONE-TIME STATE SENATOR IS DEAD Christ Levang, 59, Once Non- partisan Leader, Found Dead in Automobile Adams, N. D., April 9.—()—Funer- al rites for Christ Levang, 59, former North Dakota senator and Nonparti- ing for the railroad. It takes quite|SAD league leader a time to get the money anyway.” Of direct Irish descent, Holmes was Mrs. Longworth telephoned Speaker Longworth’s office at Washington that his body would be taken directly from Aiken, 8. C., to Cincinnati for a family funeral there. Train arraignments were placed in the hands of Sergeant at Arms Rod- gers of the house, who immediately communicated with railroad officials Teseising special service for the oc- casion, Miss Mildred E. Reeves, secretary jto Mr. Longworth, was to leave Washington for Cincinnati later Republican Margin Narrowed by Death Washington, April 9—()— death of Nicholas Longworth Bes! Towed to one the Republican ma- jority in the new house of repre- sentatives. And in narrowing the margin, the chances of Representative Garner, Democratic Jeader, Texas —“Jack” and warm personal friend to Longworth during their 26 years together in the house— for the speakership were ad- vanced. The count of the house - vene in December now EO Republicans, 216; Democrats, 215; Farmer-Labor, 1; three vacancies: one in Wisconsin, assuredly Re- panleats, one in Louisiana, assur- ly Democratic, and Longworth’ cee doubtful, f epresentative Tilson, Con- necticut, Republican floor leader, beat preg among the logical lor the speakershi) nomination. e There was no assurance from Representative Kvale, Minnesota, the lone Farmer-Laborite, whether he would vote for Republican or Democratic organization of the new house. A special election to fill the va- cancy in the first Ohio congres- sional district must be called by the governor under the Ohio statutes. Governor White said he would look into the law on the proced- ure to be followed in a congres- sional vacancy. The law does not specify a time limit on when the special election shall be called. Thursday to assist in making ar- rangements there. President Hoover expected to at- tend the funeral. It was announced at the white house the chief executive would be at the funeral although no definite Plans have been communicated to him relative to Mrs. Longsworth’s President Hoover probably will go on a special train to be present at the funeral at Cincinnati Saturday aft- ernoon. at 2 p. m. Served 13 Terms A six-year term as speaker culm- ted Longworth’s service in the of representatives during 13 But three speakers in the history ot the house occupied longer the chalt to which Longworth was elevated by his Republican after 20 id Hl az